:00:00. > :00:08.Reporting from Washington, I'm Jane O'Brien.
:00:09. > :00:18.as Iraqi special forces finally reach the city.
:00:19. > :00:21.It's been two years since so-called Islamic State took control.
:00:22. > :00:27.Our correspondent is on the front line.
:00:28. > :00:33.Rocket propelled grenades have been incoming.
:00:34. > :00:36.In the US, it's a week to go until election day and the race
:00:37. > :00:44.but it all hangs on the battle-ground states.
:00:45. > :00:50.I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina, a state that both sides desperately
:00:51. > :00:52.want to win, and which is getting lots of visitors this week.
:00:53. > :00:55.And what impact will Brexit have on the Ireland-UK border?
:00:56. > :01:06.We've a special report from the Emerald Isle.
:01:07. > :01:09.And we look at the high numbers of musicians
:01:10. > :01:23.We begin in Iraq where two years after the humiliation
:01:24. > :01:25.of being driven out by so-called Islamic State,
:01:26. > :01:31.The assault on Iraq's second largest city is now in its third week.
:01:32. > :01:33.It's involved hundreds of troops in heavily-armoured vehicles,
:01:34. > :01:46.A team of special forces has seized control of the symbolic state TV
:01:47. > :01:48.building in the eastern Mosul district of Kukjali -
:01:49. > :01:50.the first important building to be captured since the offensive began.
:01:51. > :01:52.Our international correspondent Ian Pannell and
:01:53. > :01:55.cameraman Darren Conway are embedded with Iraqi special forces
:01:56. > :02:02.on the front line, from where they sent this report.
:02:03. > :02:08.Slowly and relentlessly, the territory of the so-called caliphate
:02:09. > :02:12.is being taken back. It is almost two and a half years since the
:02:13. > :02:23.motives for able to cross these planes, with ease, and now it's the
:02:24. > :02:29.turn of Iraqi special forces. We have heard a sound of Ed, close to
:02:30. > :02:40.the city over Brazil, it is sniper fire coming in from Islamic State.
:02:41. > :02:46.-- the city of Mosul. They are responding, trying to stop the
:02:47. > :02:52.shooting from coming in. Few expected that they would advance
:02:53. > :02:56.this far, this farce. But the closer they get to Mosul, so the resistance
:02:57. > :03:02.only grows. We are now literally just a few hundred meters from the
:03:03. > :03:05.outskirts of Mosul with counterterrorism forces, coming up
:03:06. > :03:08.against significantly stronger resistance than we have seen in the
:03:09. > :03:12.last few days. Constantly hearing the sound of rounds coming in,
:03:13. > :03:17.rocket propelled grenades as well as automatic weapons fire, tanks, heavy
:03:18. > :03:22.weapons, and they are targeting a number of buildings where they think
:03:23. > :03:26.Islamic State is based, before it is then safe to move on into Mosul.
:03:27. > :03:29.Thought to be more than 1 million people trapped between the warring
:03:30. > :03:35.parties, with nothing but a white flag for defence. Many fear that a
:03:36. > :03:39.mass civilian exodus might lie ahead. This is the moment that the
:03:40. > :03:44.troops entered the outskirts of Mosul. It is hard to exaggerate how
:03:45. > :03:49.dangerous this day was. Islamic State fighters on the skyline barely
:03:50. > :03:54.seem to care that these troops were advancing. But that does not mean
:03:55. > :04:05.they are not prepared to defend the city, or fight to the death. The
:04:06. > :04:09.advance forces have been moving through the outskirts of Mosul for
:04:10. > :04:12.the last few hours, and met incredibly stiff resistance. We have
:04:13. > :04:17.seen a number of Isis fighters moving around. Carrying rocket
:04:18. > :04:31.propelled grenades. There have been incoming attacks. And a lot of
:04:32. > :04:37.gunfire. The ground is treacherous. It is laced with IEDs and it
:04:38. > :04:42.illustrates how hard and difficult this final stage of the battle is
:04:43. > :04:46.going to be. This is just day one, inside Mosul. This is the road that
:04:47. > :04:50.the troops must now take, leading to the centre of the city. A dark and
:04:51. > :05:02.dangerous route into the heart of the caliphate of Islamic State.
:05:03. > :05:07.Hair raising stuff from the front line of the battle for Mosul.
:05:08. > :05:10.Here in the US, there's now a week to go before polling day
:05:11. > :05:13.in one of the most unconventional and hostile presidential elections
:05:14. > :05:16.And today, the race to the White House
:05:17. > :05:20.One poll has put Donald Trump just ahead of Hillary Clinton
:05:21. > :05:24.But the key to winning this election lies in the battle ground states
:05:25. > :05:29.and that's where my colleague, Katty Kay is now.
:05:30. > :05:38.There are about half a dozen of these states. Why, in particular,
:05:39. > :05:42.are we watching North Carolina? Critical to watch North Carolina. It
:05:43. > :05:46.has 15 electoral college votes. That will be handy for anyone trying to
:05:47. > :05:51.get to deal with a 70 and win the White House. It is also a swing
:05:52. > :05:54.state and has voted Republican- Democrat- Republican in the last
:05:55. > :06:00.dozen collections. It is a real battle ground. Everyone is here,
:06:01. > :06:03.Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, they are all
:06:04. > :06:08.coming into North Carolina. It is getting lots of attention. All of
:06:09. > :06:13.the battle ground states are key, and our North America and editor
:06:14. > :06:20.John Sobell has more on how the battle is playing out. -- Sopel.
:06:21. > :06:22.Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both launched
:06:23. > :06:26.They've been going at it nonstop ever since.
:06:27. > :06:30.Today Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania.
:06:31. > :06:32.Hillary Clinton is now on her way to Florida
:06:33. > :06:42.This is where the marathon turns into a sprint as the candidates
:06:43. > :06:49.that will determine this election. So what are the key swing states?
:06:50. > :06:51.They are Florida, North Carolina in the south
:06:52. > :06:54.and Ohio and Pennsylvania in the industrial north.
:06:55. > :06:56.For Donald Trump to have a path to victory
:06:57. > :07:05.But successive polls suggest Hillary Clinton
:07:06. > :07:08.has comfortable leads in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
:07:09. > :07:12.That is why, in the battle to get the keys for this place,
:07:13. > :07:14.the FBI intervention may have given Donald Trump momentum,
:07:15. > :07:16.it hasn't decriesively shifted the race.
:07:17. > :07:20.Hillary Clinton is still winning where she needs to.
:07:21. > :07:23.I was calling to see if we still have your support
:07:24. > :07:30.Leaving polls to one side, you also need a ground game.
:07:31. > :07:32.Here too in conventional terms Hillary Clinton
:07:33. > :07:36.This is her team working in another swing state, Nevada.
:07:37. > :07:38.She has far more staff, far more offices, even more money.
:07:39. > :07:42.have the infrastructure Donald Trump may not
:07:43. > :07:46.the Republican nominee in the race to become
:07:47. > :07:53.It's worth underlining in many states
:07:54. > :07:55.that early voting has already started via postal ballots or
:07:56. > :07:59.It's estimated that around 24 million Americans
:08:00. > :08:06.On a nationwide average, that's around 20% of the likely
:08:07. > :08:09.But that number is obviously far higher
:08:10. > :08:15.in early voting states, many of them key battlegrounds.
:08:16. > :08:23.The figures of registered Republicans and registered Democrats
:08:24. > :08:25.going to vote shows a slight edge for Hillary Clinton.
:08:26. > :08:27.In trying to explain this race, American
:08:28. > :08:30.political pundits have used the phrase of a British Prime Minister
:08:31. > :08:35.from the 1960s - Howard Wilson's comment
:08:36. > :08:38.that "a week is a long time in politics."
:08:39. > :08:42.In this helter-skelter white knuckle ride, indeed it is.
:08:43. > :08:44.And who knows what's going to happen next?
:08:45. > :08:53.Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.
:08:54. > :09:00.It certainly feels like a very long time indeed. Let's get more run the
:09:01. > :09:04.state of the race in North Carolina, and I'm joined by Susan Roberts,
:09:05. > :09:08.Professor of politics at Davidson College. How is this race looking at
:09:09. > :09:12.the moment in North Carolina? It is looking very tight. There was an
:09:13. > :09:16.opinion poll today, only going through Saturday of last week and
:09:17. > :09:24.Thursday, showing the race neck and neck, 44-44. Since then we have had
:09:25. > :09:32.the revelation about the e-mails. It still shows to be about a 4-5% lead,
:09:33. > :09:37.and I don't know who to trust and if you look around, North Carolina has
:09:38. > :09:41.had, just six blocks from here, six weeks ago, the shooting of an
:09:42. > :09:45.unarmed black man in Charlotte. There has been so much going on that
:09:46. > :09:50.we don't know how much some of these things are going to affect turnout.
:09:51. > :09:54.Why is North Carolina such a critical battle ground state in
:09:55. > :10:00.2016, in this race? Because it has kind of a perfect storm, Mullany 's,
:10:01. > :10:06.African-Americans, rural, urban, suburban divides, and things that
:10:07. > :10:13.make it very desirable, even ideological. Something that North
:10:14. > :10:18.Carolina is, that you have had a series of pieces of legislation that
:10:19. > :10:26.have had an ideological divide, such as HD two, the bill for Governor
:10:27. > :10:31.McCrory, and that has created a lot of tension in terms of where do you
:10:32. > :10:37.stand on positions about gay rights, access to abortion, voting rights.
:10:38. > :10:41.It is a testing ground for some very liberal - conservative device. It
:10:42. > :10:45.has become Ground Zero in America's cultural wars in the context of the
:10:46. > :10:49.selection. Lots of visitors coming to North Carolina this week. Barack
:10:50. > :10:54.Obama is one of them. Is he coming to try and increase that turnout
:10:55. > :10:58.amongst African American voters, do? I think he wants to increase turnout
:10:59. > :11:01.among African-Americans and all around the state. If you look at
:11:02. > :11:09.Hillary Clinton, she's gone to the states where you have Mullany alls,
:11:10. > :11:13.college educated, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, and this is where the
:11:14. > :11:18.Democrats have their national convention four years ago, so she is
:11:19. > :11:22.very familiar with Charlotte. She will be trying to get the
:11:23. > :11:28.African-American vote out, because it is 22%, give or take, of the
:11:29. > :11:32.voting block here in North Carolina. It is an important building block to
:11:33. > :11:37.get out those African-Americans in early voting as well. The issue of
:11:38. > :11:40.race, as a professor suggested, came to a forefront in Charlotte a couple
:11:41. > :11:44.of months ago after an African-American man was shot dead
:11:45. > :11:48.by police. What looks like a peaceful financial city exploded and
:11:49. > :11:52.race riots, and race is still an important election issue in this
:11:53. > :11:55.campaign, as I learned when I went to speak to a local pastor.
:11:56. > :11:58.For those of us who have been Christians for a long time,
:11:59. > :12:00.here's a question, why does Jesus save us?
:12:01. > :12:05.Derwin Gray is a former NFL player who gave up football for faith.
:12:06. > :12:07.He opened the Transformation Church in 2010, on Super Bowl Sunday.
:12:08. > :12:09.When you're preaching, you're telling your congregation
:12:10. > :12:17.That makes some people mad!
:12:18. > :12:23.Because in America we have idolised politics, and particularly
:12:24. > :12:28.with the religious right in the 80s, they did a phenomenal job
:12:29. > :12:31.of shaping that Republicanism is equivalent to following Jesus.
:12:32. > :12:33.Pastor Derwin knows the trials of being black in North Carolina.
:12:34. > :12:37.Two years ago he was pulled over by police with his son in the car.
:12:38. > :12:39.A policeman got behind us, put on his high beams
:12:40. > :12:44.for over a mile, and then pulled us over and asked us,
:12:45. > :12:49.Now, I'm a grown man, with grown children.
:12:50. > :12:51.You don't ask a grown man what he's doing here.
:12:52. > :12:53.I'm an American citizen who paid taxes for your job,
:12:54. > :12:56.on the freeways that I'm driving, I paid taxes for.
:12:57. > :13:00.I'm driving home after preaching the gospel.
:13:01. > :13:04.But we fit a particular profile, and the sad part is,
:13:05. > :13:09.I've got to look my 13-year-old son in the eyes and say,
:13:10. > :13:12."put your hands on the back of the driver side seat,
:13:13. > :13:20.You look him in the eyes, "yes sir, no sir".
:13:21. > :13:23.So I didn't respond with what was in my heart, I
:13:24. > :13:26.Derwin opened his church specifically to get
:13:27. > :13:35.A lot of Christians in the south, in the primaries,
:13:36. > :13:42.Yeah, and you know, that's the great thing about these United States
:13:43. > :13:44.of America, is that we're free to vote our conscience.
:13:45. > :13:47.So for those in our congregation who wear the Trump shirts,
:13:48. > :13:50.I give them a high five and love them, because what brings
:13:51. > :13:53.us together is greater than what divides us.
:13:54. > :13:56.They have an American right to vote for Hillary or Mr Trump.
:13:57. > :13:58.Derwin's office is a tribute to his two passions,
:13:59. > :14:05.No pastor office is complete without a football.
:14:06. > :14:08.You have to take the claims of the Bible true.
:14:09. > :14:10.North Carolina is changing fast, with newcomers shaking up
:14:11. > :14:16.It makes for a beautiful mixture, but with mixture there is always
:14:17. > :14:17.conflict, which requires humility, which requires love,
:14:18. > :14:28.and requires standing in the shoes of the other.
:14:29. > :14:35.Race, obviously an important issue in North Carolina. But, is it the
:14:36. > :14:37.same everywhere, or how the candidates fighting lots of
:14:38. > :14:44.different races in these battle ground states? Every area has its
:14:45. > :14:49.own concerns, but I would say that in most states I have been to
:14:50. > :14:53.recently, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, the predominant
:14:54. > :14:57.issue is the economy and jobs, and that is where Donald Trump seems to
:14:58. > :15:02.have some success, particularly amongst poorer workers whose jobs
:15:03. > :15:06.have moved overseas, all who live in manufacturing areas were factories
:15:07. > :15:09.have closed, and they are fed up with politicians who have not done
:15:10. > :15:13.anything about it, we think, you know what? We're not sure that
:15:14. > :15:17.Donald Trump can make manufacturing grape again, but we're prepared to
:15:18. > :15:21.roll the dice and give it a go, because if we keep electing the same
:15:22. > :15:24.type of people, and they think Hillary Clinton is the same type of
:15:25. > :15:28.politician as they have elected four years, they will continue to have
:15:29. > :15:32.the same problems. That is where a lot of Donald Trump's support this
:15:33. > :15:37.coming from in the States. It is really about jobs. What the of this
:15:38. > :15:44.one opinion poll that puts him one point ahead of Hillary Clinton? How
:15:45. > :15:48.should we interpret that? The series of opinion polls we've had in the
:15:49. > :15:52.last few days sure that this race is tightening. Some of that was to be
:15:53. > :15:56.expected in the final week of the campaign, that some voters would,
:15:57. > :16:00.and the Republican Party. Some of it is fallout from the e-mail
:16:01. > :16:04.investigation. On that point in particular, it is worth pointing out
:16:05. > :16:12.that that same opinion poll, one week before the 2004 election put
:16:13. > :16:16.John Kerry ahead, and he went on to lose, and the same opinion poll put
:16:17. > :16:21.Mitt Romney ahead, and he went on to lose. It is not always the most
:16:22. > :16:25.reliable of opinion polls, is more reliable to look at the trend of
:16:26. > :16:29.opinion polls and that shows the race tightening, but Hillary Clinton
:16:30. > :16:34.still ahead. And of course anyone trying to predict what happens next
:16:35. > :16:41.in this campaign is an idiot. Thank you.
:16:42. > :16:43.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:16:44. > :16:45.Italy is continuing to suffer aftershocks after two
:16:46. > :16:47.earthquakes on Sunday, that damaged medieval towns
:16:48. > :16:48.and churches and left thousands homeless.
:16:49. > :16:50.The national geology institute said that tremors
:16:51. > :16:53.One of them, with a magnitude of 4.7,
:16:54. > :16:55.was reportedly felt as far away as Rome.
:16:56. > :16:57.Turkey has dismissed European Union condemnation of the arrest
:16:58. > :16:59.of senior journalists at a leading opposition newspaper.
:17:00. > :17:01.The EU said that, in terms of press freedom,
:17:02. > :17:12.the detentions had crossed a "red line".
:17:13. > :17:16.The Prime Minister of Turkey said that red lines were of no importance
:17:17. > :17:20.and that Turkey would not take any notice.
:17:21. > :17:22.When Britain leaves the European Union its only land
:17:23. > :17:25.border with an EU state will be between Northern Ireland
:17:26. > :17:29.What sort of controls might there be and how will it affect trade?
:17:30. > :17:30.Our special correspondent, Allan Little, has sent
:17:31. > :17:41.To understand Ireland's Brexit anxiety,
:17:42. > :17:44.go to the farms of its rich and fertile pasturelands.
:17:45. > :17:46.They sell more than half of what they produce
:17:47. > :17:50.A falling pound has already made their milk
:17:51. > :17:56.Now, there's the prospect of a new border separating them
:17:57. > :18:07.Like, we have a huge market, 50 miles from where we stand
:18:08. > :18:11.here now, and if we can't supply that market without tariffs,
:18:12. > :18:14.it's not good, like, it's very worrying talk or prospect.
:18:15. > :18:17.Once there were Customs controls between the UK and Ireland,
:18:18. > :18:19.but those border posts disappeared when both countries joined
:18:20. > :18:26.the European Community together in 1973.
:18:27. > :18:29.This is what that border crossing looks like now,
:18:30. > :18:31.you can drive down this road without even noticing that
:18:32. > :18:34.you've left one country and entered another,
:18:35. > :18:38.but soon this will be the edge of the European Union.
:18:39. > :18:41.Down there, migrants from 26 other countries will still be
:18:42. > :18:44.able to come and live and work and claim benefits,
:18:45. > :18:50.but not if they walk up there, into the United Kingdom.
:18:51. > :18:53.If you have no border controls here, how do you police that?
:18:54. > :19:03.Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Democratic Unionists,
:19:04. > :19:12.Their emphatic British unionism seems reinvigorated
:19:13. > :19:16.by their sense of having seized back a lost UK sovereignty.
:19:17. > :19:18.But they believe that the border can,
:19:19. > :19:23.With the political willingness from both the British
:19:24. > :19:26.to borders of the past, that they would never see a return
:19:27. > :19:30.we're actually quite relaxed about it.
:19:31. > :19:32.But we're not ignoring the fact that there are issues
:19:33. > :19:35.that need to be worked through, but they are entirely surmountable,
:19:36. > :19:41.In the Republic they're not reassured by this sunny optimism.
:19:42. > :19:45.For one option is for Ireland to bow to the realities of geography
:19:46. > :19:48.and to allow the UK to place its Border and Customs controls
:19:49. > :19:56.You're asking for an independent state, the Republic of Ireland,
:19:57. > :20:01.to impose and work British migration law at its ports and airports.
:20:02. > :20:05.I mean, that's really what you're saying.
:20:06. > :20:08.Which you're kind of saying - well, we don't really think
:20:09. > :20:10.you're an independent country, it's just a kind of figment
:20:11. > :20:14.I think, as an Irish person, you feel pretty angry about the fact
:20:15. > :20:17.that something really profound has been done to Ireland without
:20:18. > :20:20.Ireland having featured at all in the discussion.
:20:21. > :20:23.Ireland has forged its modern identity as an independent nation
:20:24. > :20:27.in Europe, but the powerful gravitational pull of its larger
:20:28. > :20:44.One of the many unforeseen consequences Brexit.
:20:45. > :20:48.It's been one of the big topics in the world of music this year -
:20:49. > :20:50.why are so many major stars having mental health problems?
:20:51. > :20:53.A survey by a UK charity suggests three-quarters of those working
:20:54. > :20:55.in the industry have had anxiety and panic attacks.
:20:56. > :20:59.Our Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson reports.
:21:00. > :21:02.I went missing for about ten minutes trying to escape the venue.
:21:03. > :21:13.I tended to do worse off the road than on the road.
:21:14. > :21:17.At home, I'm in a bit of my own company, which I'm not so good at.
:21:18. > :21:20.The only thing that bothers me is I have dealt with 25 years
:21:21. > :21:23.of this and everybody treating me like a crazy person.
:21:24. > :21:25.It is a great source of amusement and entertainment,
:21:26. > :21:29.and we live in a world where "crazy" is a term of abuse.
:21:30. > :21:31.Many of the big names in music have spoken
:21:32. > :21:42.This year, former One Direction member Zayn Malik made headlines
:21:43. > :21:45.for cancelling a number of solo gigs due to extreme anxiety.
:21:46. > :21:48.# We're gonna let it burn, burn, burn...#.
:21:49. > :21:51.In July Ellie Goulding postponed shows after panic attacks.
:21:52. > :21:54.New research today claims to show just how common a problem this is.
:21:55. > :21:56.The survey suggests more than 70% of professional musicians
:21:57. > :22:08.That figure is almost repeated when it comes to depression.
:22:09. > :22:09.While we are very concerned about the findings,
:22:10. > :22:13.because of the pressures on those that are uniquely placed
:22:14. > :22:15.within the industry, we were not unduly surprised this
:22:16. > :22:19.pressure led to issues of anxiety, depression and mental health.
:22:20. > :22:22.These students learning how to make it big in the music business
:22:23. > :22:29.appreciate that even those at the top have their struggles.
:22:30. > :22:32.All I want to do is little session gigs, and just play.
:22:33. > :22:34.But I would hate to be like a household name.
:22:35. > :22:36.How robust do you have to be in this industry?
:22:37. > :22:42.Just keep your head with what you want to do,
:22:43. > :22:47.It is a problem that there are so many people
:22:48. > :22:55.You just hope for yourself that will not happen to you.
:22:56. > :22:58.But the next generation of potential stars are being given
:22:59. > :23:01.classes on how to help them deal with the issues.
:23:02. > :23:04.Initially, when you start out, little things can seem
:23:05. > :23:14.If you are challenged and they constantly want more,
:23:15. > :23:23.Now the industry as a whole is being challenged to work out
:23:24. > :23:25.how to tackle these mental health problems, which it's claimed affect
:23:26. > :23:39.but elections used to be quite festive affairs here in the US.
:23:40. > :23:41.And in the battleground state of North Carolina, one bakery
:23:42. > :23:47.is reviving a centuries-old recipe used to celebrate the occasion.
:23:48. > :23:50.You could say they're hoping to make America cake again.
:23:51. > :24:02.An election cake is a Colonial era cake and it's a celebratory cake
:24:03. > :24:05.that was once attached to voting places and polling sites
:24:06. > :24:13.In some of the original recipes that we found, there would have
:24:14. > :24:15.been 30 quarts of flour, so you can imagine
:24:16. > :24:21.That would have been only one of the components of this cake.
:24:22. > :24:28.Election cake was really intended to feed a lot of people, the masses.
:24:29. > :24:34.You want to make sure that it's very bubbly and very active.
:24:35. > :24:44.Make sure that you beat the butter very, very well.
:24:45. > :24:47.You want to add the eggs one at a time while you continue
:24:48. > :24:52.We reduced the mixer to low speed so it doesn't over-mix the flour.
:24:53. > :24:56.This is the final step, getting a tough cake.
:24:57. > :25:05.carefully folding in the booze- soaked fruit and the sherry.
:25:06. > :25:10.The most important part in baking is to really be present,
:25:11. > :25:14.just want to attend to every process.
:25:15. > :25:17.It's a cake that takes at least a day, sometimes two days to make,
:25:18. > :25:21.and so if you can give it the proper time it needs,
:25:22. > :25:23.you will get a really beautiful,
:25:24. > :25:36.OWL is a female-owned and led business and since the cake was once
:25:37. > :25:39.baked by women who couldn't vote, we thought it was an interesting way
:25:40. > :25:41.to show how gender dynamics have shifted over time.
:25:42. > :25:45.And that electoral process was something that was celebrated.
:25:46. > :25:48.There is a lot of bad feelings around this election and
:25:49. > :25:52.I think that we forget how lucky we are to live in a country
:25:53. > :26:05.where there are presumably peaceful elections.
:26:06. > :26:11.From me Jane O'Brien and the rest of the team goodbye.
:26:12. > :26:17.As we have arrived in November we have flicked a switch with the
:26:18. > :26:18.weather. It is much colder, and